Build My Gallows High

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0:01:28 > 0:01:32WHISTLES FOR ATTENTION

0:01:36 > 0:01:40TOOTS HORN

0:01:49 > 0:01:52< Where's Bailey?

0:01:55 > 0:01:57Deaf and dumb, eh?

0:02:07 > 0:02:10< Can you read lips?

0:02:11 > 0:02:15Where is Bailey?

0:02:16 > 0:02:22Coming back today? Come on...!

0:02:48 > 0:02:51- Hello, Marny. - Well, look who's back!

0:02:51 > 0:02:57- Hey, I thought you were a blonde. - For all your thinking of me I could be bald!

0:02:57 > 0:03:03- Ham on rye. Did you miss me, honey? - I can't think of anyone else who did.

0:03:03 > 0:03:06- But Bailey doesn't miss nothin'. - Nor you!

0:03:06 > 0:03:11She's your girl and he ain't my man. I just see what I see.

0:03:11 > 0:03:16- Sure you don't see what you hear? - Nothing happens I don't hear about.

0:03:16 > 0:03:22- Every day they go fishing together. - Look, the sandwich.

0:03:22 > 0:03:26Two things I can smell anywhere - a burning hamburger and a romance!

0:03:26 > 0:03:29- You got a customer. - What'll you have?

0:03:29 > 0:03:33Coffee? Nothing else? Cream.

0:03:33 > 0:03:37- Where you been this time?- LA. - Coffee?- No, thanks.

0:03:37 > 0:03:42First she's got you, now him too. The only thing I get is older.

0:03:42 > 0:03:45I'll see you later, Marny.

0:03:48 > 0:03:52Hmm...guess I must have said something. Enough.

0:03:52 > 0:03:58They just don't want to hear. That's the trouble with the world.

0:03:58 > 0:04:04Maybe you're right. Tell me something... I didn't know I could!

0:04:04 > 0:04:08Does Bailey run the gas station? Know him?

0:04:08 > 0:04:11I might have once.

0:04:11 > 0:04:16If he keeps mooning around Jim's girl, no-one will know him!

0:04:16 > 0:04:19You...er...see much of Bailey?

0:04:19 > 0:04:22Yeah, every day. From here.

0:04:22 > 0:04:29I often wondered what happened to him. Then I see his sign up there.

0:04:29 > 0:04:34It's a small world. Yeah...or a big sign.

0:04:49 > 0:04:54- They're just not feeding today. - They will later. It's clouding up.

0:04:54 > 0:04:59- They say the day you die, your name is written on a cloud.- Who says?

0:04:59 > 0:05:02- They.- Never heard of them.

0:05:02 > 0:05:06- Nothin' in that one but rain. We oughta go.- Yes.

0:05:06 > 0:05:09- Do you want to?- No.

0:05:09 > 0:05:14When I look at the sky, I think of all the places I've never been.

0:05:14 > 0:05:17Yes, but they're all the same.

0:05:17 > 0:05:22- You've been a lot of places, haven't you?- One too many!

0:05:22 > 0:05:27- Which did you like best?- This one. - Bet you say that everywhere.

0:05:27 > 0:05:34See that cove over there? I'd like to build a house in it, marry you and stay there.

0:05:34 > 0:05:37I wish you would.

0:05:44 > 0:05:49- You weren't ever married before? - Not that I can remember.

0:05:49 > 0:05:58That's good. People talk about you - the mysterious Jeff Bailey.

0:05:58 > 0:06:05My mother asks me where did you come from and what did you do?

0:06:06 > 0:06:09My father was...

0:06:19 > 0:06:22- We'd better go.- Something wrong?

0:06:22 > 0:06:24Maybe not.

0:06:27 > 0:06:29Here...

0:06:33 > 0:06:36You sure are a secret man.

0:06:38 > 0:06:40Thanks.

0:06:40 > 0:06:44- No...a man just wants to see me.- Oh.

0:07:02 > 0:07:07- Long time.- Hello, Joe. I wish it was nicer to see you.

0:07:07 > 0:07:12- Everyone's missed you, but not as much as I have.- Oh?

0:07:12 > 0:07:16- Whit wishes I had brains like you. - What's the other reason?

0:07:16 > 0:07:19I had to find you.

0:07:20 > 0:07:23- I owe you or something? - Not me.- Who?

0:07:23 > 0:07:29- How far can that kid read lips? - I'll ask him sometime(!)- This far?

0:07:29 > 0:07:33- Don't like to make mistakes, eh? - They don't let me.

0:07:33 > 0:07:35All right, come on inside.

0:07:40 > 0:07:45- Funny racket to find you in. - Me and the kid laugh all the time!

0:07:45 > 0:07:50I guess it's respectable. That hash-slinger says so, too.

0:07:50 > 0:07:58- How did you happen to find me, Joe? - Well, I was driving down the street and saw you pumping gasoline.

0:07:58 > 0:08:03- Of course, there's a different name. - Just dropped in?- Why not?

0:08:03 > 0:08:06OK, then I'm glad to see an old pal, too.

0:08:06 > 0:08:12So, I take you to dinner, then you hop in your car and you're gone. Right?

0:08:12 > 0:08:18- Almost.- What else? - I'm still working for that guy. - Whit?

0:08:18 > 0:08:23- He'd like to see you. - As much as you did?- Worse.

0:08:23 > 0:08:27- I see.- No-one ever thought more of you than Whit.

0:08:27 > 0:08:31- Or more about me(!) - Well, that could be true.

0:08:31 > 0:08:36- All right, what does he want? - Maybe he's got something for you.

0:08:36 > 0:08:41- Try once more.- Look, Whit never steered you into anything bad.

0:08:41 > 0:08:46- Why, he never squawked when you blew the best thing he had.- Go on.

0:08:46 > 0:08:49The guy just wants to see you.

0:08:49 > 0:08:54- Well, since you put it that way, OK. - Know any other way to put it?

0:08:56 > 0:08:59- Say tomorrow morning?- Where?

0:08:59 > 0:09:04Lake Tahoe. Turn right at the bay. Big house. You won't miss it.

0:09:04 > 0:09:06You can't.

0:09:13 > 0:09:17TOOTS HORN

0:09:26 > 0:09:33< John, are you letting her out like this? Are you gonna stand for it?

0:09:33 > 0:09:37< With a man who won't even come to the door?

0:09:37 > 0:09:40Don't worry about them.

0:09:40 > 0:09:44- Darling...- It's no good, is it?

0:09:44 > 0:09:48- It's just that they... - Oh, honey, I know how they feel.

0:09:48 > 0:09:53- Don't worry about it.- I'm not. - Then don't look so grim.

0:09:53 > 0:09:56- No, it's something else. - What?

0:09:56 > 0:09:59- That guy who showed up today... - Yes?

0:09:59 > 0:10:04- Want to take a ride with me up to Lake Tahoe?- Now?- Yes, now.

0:10:04 > 0:10:08- I want to tell you something. - All right.

0:10:08 > 0:10:11You told me once I'd have to tell you sometime.

0:10:11 > 0:10:15Well...this is it.

0:10:27 > 0:10:33Well, first of all, my name isn't Bailey. It's Markham.

0:10:33 > 0:10:35Markham? Jeff Markham?

0:10:35 > 0:10:43I should have told you before. I just kept putting it off, because I didn't like any of it.

0:10:43 > 0:10:48- Please tell me, Jeff. - It'll hurt you.- It doesn't matter.

0:10:48 > 0:10:56Well, our friend Markham lived in New York. He worked for a sort of stupid, oily gent called Fisher.

0:10:56 > 0:11:00We called ourselves detectives.

0:11:00 > 0:11:03That was about 3 years ago, maybe more.

0:11:03 > 0:11:08Wintertime. One of the coldest days I remember.

0:11:08 > 0:11:14- We got a call to see a big op... - What?- A big operator - a gambler.

0:11:14 > 0:11:18He didn't come to see us, because he was too high-powered.

0:11:18 > 0:11:22Also, because some dame had taken 4 shots at him with a .38,

0:11:22 > 0:11:25and made one of them good.

0:11:28 > 0:11:32He was taking it in stride, but his friend was a ball of fire.

0:11:32 > 0:11:36Newspaper guys! Who are they kidding?

0:11:36 > 0:11:41So, I shot the ace of spades out of his sleeve in a gin game(!)

0:11:41 > 0:11:46A guy can't even get shot by a dame without the town buzzing like a...

0:11:46 > 0:11:50Like you? Smoke a cigarette, Joe.

0:11:50 > 0:11:56You just sit quiet. You wait for me to talk. I like that.

0:11:56 > 0:12:00I never found out much listening to myself!

0:12:01 > 0:12:07- Ahh...! It's amazing she missed me so often. - Maybe you were moving.

0:12:07 > 0:12:10A dame with a rod is lethal.

0:12:10 > 0:12:14- What's he doing here? - My partner.

0:12:16 > 0:12:20- Should I ask why you didn't call the law?- Should you?

0:12:20 > 0:12:24I guess not. Anything happened to her?

0:12:24 > 0:12:27- She's gone.- With 40,000. - I want her.

0:12:27 > 0:12:30Or the money?

0:12:31 > 0:12:37- I once bet on a horse that ran dead last. So, I bought... - That's what I mean.

0:12:37 > 0:12:44Oh, you're wrong. That horse is in a nice green pasture so he won't have any accidents.

0:12:44 > 0:12:47You should visit it sometime.

0:12:48 > 0:12:51No...I just want her back.

0:12:51 > 0:12:56- When you see, you'll understand. - Maybe she's just impulsive.

0:12:56 > 0:12:59Shall we let it go at that?

0:12:59 > 0:13:02I can let it all go.

0:13:02 > 0:13:06Even 5,000 now and the same when you bring her back?

0:13:06 > 0:13:12- And expenses.- Now, that should have been the first thing you said.

0:13:12 > 0:13:15- Find her, Jeff. Bring her back. - Why me?

0:13:15 > 0:13:21I know a lot of smart guys and a few honest ones. You're both.

0:13:24 > 0:13:27What happens to her?

0:13:27 > 0:13:29I won't touch her.

0:13:34 > 0:13:36OK.

0:13:37 > 0:13:41Get me some stuff on her. Family. Pictures.

0:13:41 > 0:13:45- You'll get it.- Bring it over. Come on, let's go.

0:13:46 > 0:13:51Oh, by the way, d'you mind telling me her name?

0:13:51 > 0:13:54..Kathie Moffatt.

0:13:54 > 0:13:56Thanks.

0:13:57 > 0:14:03She must be quite a dame... A wild goose with forty G's!

0:14:03 > 0:14:08- For a smart guy that Sterling sure trusts you, don't he?- Why not?

0:14:08 > 0:14:13- Am I going along?- No. - Doesn't like my personality, huh?

0:14:13 > 0:14:19- It's still fifty-fifty, Jeff. - Did I say different? - All right.

0:14:19 > 0:14:22But don't get any cute ideas.

0:14:23 > 0:14:26BIG BAND DANCE MUSIC

0:14:39 > 0:14:44This is an old friend of mine, Jeff Markham. He wants to talk.

0:14:44 > 0:14:48- Which one of you is Eunice Leonard? - ..Me.

0:14:48 > 0:14:51May I ask you a few questions?

0:14:53 > 0:14:56Come on, honey. Let's dance.

0:14:59 > 0:15:01You work for Katherine Moffatt?

0:15:01 > 0:15:04Not any more. She's gone.

0:15:04 > 0:15:08I only stayed 'cos she got sick bein' vaccinated.

0:15:08 > 0:15:10- Why? - I want to find her.

0:15:10 > 0:15:15- For that man? - No, for myself. Where'd she go?

0:15:15 > 0:15:18- I'm not sure... - She may come to harm.

0:15:18 > 0:15:21- Is she hurt? - I don't know.

0:15:21 > 0:15:25Maybe you'd better say. It's not much.

0:15:25 > 0:15:31The clothes she took, she was looking for sun. Florida.

0:15:31 > 0:15:35- Sure about that? - Yeah, I'm sure.

0:15:35 > 0:15:38- Trunk?- Only suitcases.

0:15:38 > 0:15:44- I weighed them for her. - How much? - 131 pounds.

0:15:44 > 0:15:48- Exactly?- Exactly. That's what I weigh myself.

0:15:48 > 0:15:51Thanks... Bring them another round.

0:15:53 > 0:15:56You don't get vaccinated for Florida. You do for Mexico.

0:15:56 > 0:16:00I followed that excess baggage to Mexico City.

0:16:00 > 0:16:03She'd been at the Reforma and gone south.

0:16:03 > 0:16:07It was hot in Taxco. You ask "How hot can it get?"

0:16:07 > 0:16:10In Acapulco, you find out.

0:16:11 > 0:16:15I knew she'd come here to get a boat.

0:16:15 > 0:16:17All I had to do was wait.

0:16:17 > 0:16:21Near the Plaza was a little cafe called La Mar Azul.

0:16:21 > 0:16:26I sat there in the afternoons and drank beer.

0:16:26 > 0:16:30I used to sit there half-asleep with the beer.

0:16:30 > 0:16:33Only the music kept jarring me awake.

0:16:33 > 0:16:36And then I saw her.

0:16:36 > 0:16:41And I knew why he didn't care about that forty grand.

0:16:41 > 0:16:44- Cuba Libre.- Si, senorita.

0:16:56 > 0:17:00COIN ROLLS ALONG FLOOR

0:17:03 > 0:17:06Senorita. Senor. May I speak some words?

0:17:06 > 0:17:11- You will be seated, Senor? - With pleasure, Senor.

0:17:11 > 0:17:17- I am Jose Rodriguez, a guide. A most excellent guide. - Indeed?

0:17:17 > 0:17:23You ask them. Jose Rodriguez knows Acapulco as no-one else. Each street...

0:17:23 > 0:17:28- I don't want a guide. - A difficult girl.- They all are.

0:17:28 > 0:17:31- Perhaps a lottery ticket?- No.

0:17:31 > 0:17:35I have here, wrought by skilled hands, a ring.

0:17:35 > 0:17:39- And earrings of jade and pure silver.- These.

0:17:41 > 0:17:44Gracias, Senor. Gracias.

0:17:46 > 0:17:51- I never wear them.- Nor I. Please. - No, thank you.

0:17:51 > 0:17:57I haven't talked to anyone who hasn't tried to sell me something for 10 days.

0:17:57 > 0:18:02If I don't talk, I think. And it's too late in life for that.

0:18:02 > 0:18:07I could go and look at the sea like a good tourist,

0:18:07 > 0:18:10but no-one says, "Nice view, huh?"

0:18:10 > 0:18:14It's the same with the churches, the moonlight or a Cuba Libre.

0:18:14 > 0:18:18- It's no good unless you share it. - You should go home.

0:18:18 > 0:18:22- Maybe that's why I'm here. - Is it?

0:18:23 > 0:18:26Well, there's always Jose Rodriguez.

0:18:26 > 0:18:30There's also a cantina called Pablo's.

0:18:30 > 0:18:35It's quiet. A man there plays American music for a dollar.

0:18:35 > 0:18:39Sip bourbon and shut your eyes - it's like 56th Street.

0:18:39 > 0:18:44- I'll wear my earrings. - ..I sometimes go there.

0:18:55 > 0:19:01I went to wire Whit that I'd found her, but the telegraph office was closed.

0:19:01 > 0:19:05I was glad it was and I suddenly knew why.

0:19:09 > 0:19:15I went to Pablo's that night. I'd go every night until she showed up.

0:19:15 > 0:19:17And I knew she knew it.

0:19:19 > 0:19:25I drank bourbon and shut my eyes, but I didn't think of 56th Street.

0:19:25 > 0:19:30I knew where I was and thought what a sucker I was.

0:19:30 > 0:19:34I even knew she wouldn't come the first night.

0:19:34 > 0:19:37And I sat there grinding it out.

0:19:37 > 0:19:41SOULFUL VIOLIN PLAYS

0:19:42 > 0:19:46But the next night I knew she'd show.

0:19:46 > 0:19:49She waited until it was late.

0:19:49 > 0:19:54But then she walked in out of the moonlight, smiling.

0:20:01 > 0:20:05VIOLIN PLAYS LINGERING MELODY

0:20:13 > 0:20:17- Ah, this is a coincidence. - Yes, it is.

0:20:17 > 0:20:20..American music.

0:20:20 > 0:20:24- I've been here for two nights. - Thinking?- No, waiting.

0:20:24 > 0:20:28I haven't been lonely. Bourbon...?

0:20:28 > 0:20:31- As you suggest.- Thank you, sir.

0:20:31 > 0:20:37I've been waiting for the guy to break into Melancholy Baby!

0:20:38 > 0:20:41You know, you're a curious man.

0:20:41 > 0:20:45- You'd make every guy curious. - That's not what I mean.

0:20:45 > 0:20:49You don't ask questions. You don't even ask my name.

0:20:49 > 0:20:54- All right, what's your name? - Kathie.

0:20:54 > 0:20:58- I like it. - ..Or where I come from?

0:20:58 > 0:21:01I'm thinking about where we're going.

0:21:01 > 0:21:04- Don't you like it?- I'm restless.

0:21:04 > 0:21:08- Shall I take you somewhere else? - You can take me anywhere.

0:21:08 > 0:21:13I'm a much better guide than Jose Rodriguez. Wanna try me?

0:21:18 > 0:21:21Le jeux sont faits - rien ne vas plus.

0:21:21 > 0:21:28- That isn't the way to win. - Is there a way to win? - You can lose more slowly.

0:21:28 > 0:21:32- Le numero sept rouge. - I prefer it like that.

0:21:32 > 0:21:36- Chuck it in.- Don't you gamble? - Not against a wheel.

0:21:36 > 0:21:42- Why are you so hard to please? - Take me where I can tell you.

0:21:42 > 0:21:45All right, come on.

0:21:55 > 0:21:58Wait a minute.

0:22:31 > 0:22:34When are you taking me back?

0:22:34 > 0:22:39- Is that why you kissed me? - No.

0:22:39 > 0:22:41Whit didn't die.

0:22:41 > 0:22:44- He didn't?!- No.

0:22:44 > 0:22:47- Then why...- He just wants you back.

0:22:47 > 0:22:50I HATE him.

0:22:50 > 0:22:55- I'm sorry he didn't die. - Give him time(!)

0:22:55 > 0:23:00- But you are taking me back? - There's no hurry.

0:23:00 > 0:23:03I could have run away last night.

0:23:03 > 0:23:06I'd find you.

0:23:06 > 0:23:08Yes, I believe you would.

0:23:08 > 0:23:13- Are you glad you did? - I don't know.

0:23:15 > 0:23:17I am.

0:23:17 > 0:23:22- There was a little business about 40,000.- I didn't take it!

0:23:22 > 0:23:25How did you know it was taken?

0:23:25 > 0:23:30It's what you meant. I don't want ANYTHING of his!

0:23:30 > 0:23:37- Except his life. - I didn't know what I was doing. I only knew how I hated him.

0:23:37 > 0:23:39But I didn't take anything.

0:23:39 > 0:23:43I DIDN'T, Jeff.

0:23:44 > 0:23:47Won't you believe me?

0:23:47 > 0:23:50Baby, I don't care!

0:23:56 > 0:24:00I never saw her in the daytime. We lived by night.

0:24:00 > 0:24:04The rest of the day went like a pack of cigarettes.

0:24:04 > 0:24:11I didn't know where she lived. All I ever had was a place and time to see her again.

0:24:11 > 0:24:18What were we waiting for? Maybe we thought it was a dream and we'd wake up with a hangover.

0:24:18 > 0:24:22I wired Whit, but didn't tell him. I said, "Wish you were here."

0:24:22 > 0:24:25And every night I went to meet her.

0:24:25 > 0:24:30How did I know she'd ever show up? I didn't.

0:24:30 > 0:24:35What stopped her taking a boat to Chile or Guatemala? Nothing.

0:24:35 > 0:24:38How big a chump can you be? I found out.

0:24:38 > 0:24:43And then she'd come along like school was out.

0:24:43 > 0:24:47And everything else was a stone you sailed at the sea.

0:24:47 > 0:24:51- You're so small.- I'm taller than Napoleon.- Prettier, too.

0:24:54 > 0:24:59- Miss me?- No more than I would my eyes. Where shall we go?

0:24:59 > 0:25:02Let's go to my place.

0:25:04 > 0:25:09It was the first time she had mentioned her place.

0:25:09 > 0:25:13Maybe it was because the sky was full of rain.

0:25:26 > 0:25:31It was a nice little joint with Mexican furniture and gimcracks.

0:25:31 > 0:25:37The rain hammering on the window made it good to be in there.

0:25:37 > 0:25:39Here...

0:25:41 > 0:25:44Hey, hey, not so hard!

0:25:46 > 0:25:52- ROMANTIC MELODY PLAYS - Now yours.- Oh, no, Jeff...

0:25:52 > 0:25:56- Ohh...not so hard, Jeff. - Hush! Gotta dry your hair.

0:26:00 > 0:26:03HOWL OF WIND

0:26:18 > 0:26:21- Are you going with me?- Where?

0:26:21 > 0:26:25- Wherever it takes us.- Why? - To make a life for ourselves.

0:26:25 > 0:26:29To get away from Whit. He knows I'm here.

0:26:29 > 0:26:32- ..When?- Tomorrow.

0:26:32 > 0:26:37You can meet me at the hotel, if you can make it.

0:26:37 > 0:26:40I can make it, but can we get away with it?

0:26:40 > 0:26:45- Let's find out.- He won't forget. - Everybody forgets.

0:26:45 > 0:26:49- Not Whit!- So, we'll send him a postcard every Christmas.

0:26:49 > 0:26:52I'm glad you're not afraid of him.

0:26:52 > 0:26:56- I've been afraid of half the things I ever did.- And now?

0:26:56 > 0:26:59I'm only afraid you might not go.

0:26:59 > 0:27:02Don't be.

0:27:02 > 0:27:05I'll be there tomorrow.

0:27:05 > 0:27:08- Love me?- Uh-huh.

0:27:08 > 0:27:11- Poco?- What's that?

0:27:11 > 0:27:14- A little.- Mucho!

0:27:18 > 0:27:21WHISTLING

0:27:27 > 0:27:30KNOCK AT DOOR

0:27:34 > 0:27:38- WHISTLING TRAILS OFF - It's you.

0:27:38 > 0:27:44- I don't like surprises myself. Wanna just shut the door? - No, come in.

0:27:44 > 0:27:51I like surprises. When I was a kid we were so busted that anything was a surprise.

0:27:51 > 0:27:56- Sit down. Have a chair.- Thanks. - Been here long?

0:27:56 > 0:28:00- How long, Joe?- Just in.

0:28:00 > 0:28:04I just wondered who might be following whom?

0:28:04 > 0:28:07What makes you think that?

0:28:07 > 0:28:11Look, you trust people about as far as you can throw Joe!

0:28:11 > 0:28:15That's all right with me, but let's not get cute about it.

0:28:15 > 0:28:20I'm on my way to Mexico City. To see a man about a horse.

0:28:20 > 0:28:24On the level. A racehorse from South America.

0:28:27 > 0:28:31- Checking out?- Sure, why waste your money?- Did you find her?

0:28:31 > 0:28:34No. Only her trail.

0:28:34 > 0:28:39Not quite as hot as a prairie fire, but there. A little too obvious.

0:28:41 > 0:28:46- She's a clever little girl. - Is she?

0:28:46 > 0:28:51You should have told me, Whit. I'd have played it differently.

0:28:51 > 0:28:56Maybe she heard my shoes squeak. Always a jump ahead of me.

0:28:56 > 0:29:01- Mexico City to Taxco to here. - Here? Did you see her?- No.

0:29:01 > 0:29:05I wish I had. I don't like playing games.

0:29:05 > 0:29:08KNOCK AT DOOR

0:29:19 > 0:29:21Thank you.

0:29:21 > 0:29:23Gracias.

0:29:27 > 0:29:31Nice shoes. Sporty for you, aren't they?

0:29:31 > 0:29:35I got them here. I told you the others squeaked.

0:29:35 > 0:29:40Let's go to the bar. You can cool off while we impress each other(!)

0:29:40 > 0:29:42..Fine.

0:29:47 > 0:29:52- Nice place. Like to stay here a while myself.- You did, by proxy.

0:30:02 > 0:30:06- Something cool. - Make it two.- Three.

0:30:06 > 0:30:11- So you blew it? - Anybody can have bad luck!

0:30:11 > 0:30:16- And squeaky shoes.- Cool it, Joe. ..Where were you off to?

0:30:16 > 0:30:22Telegraph Office. To wire you. I told you, I don't like spending your money.

0:30:22 > 0:30:27- I can stand it. - Well, it's your business.

0:30:27 > 0:30:33- Whit, my friend, there's a million dames out there look like her. - No, they don't.

0:30:35 > 0:30:40- So, she was here?- Well, according to all available evidence she was.

0:30:40 > 0:30:47- Maybe if I'd sent Joe. Could YOU find a dame in a million? - The one with forty grand!

0:30:52 > 0:30:55- Sorry!- Picked up some nerves(?)

0:30:55 > 0:30:59I don't need a crack like that, or your dough!

0:30:59 > 0:31:03I missed her. The dame caught a boat south.

0:31:03 > 0:31:10- Where?- Look, I ate well before this job. If there's something you don't like you can say so!

0:31:10 > 0:31:14- I just asked where? - Chile...Guatemala...

0:31:14 > 0:31:20- You want to go and see the guy in the steamship company?- Why not?

0:31:29 > 0:31:32- Taxi, sir? - Yeah.

0:31:32 > 0:31:37I'm sorry. You're feeling bad. I shouldn't have joked about it.

0:31:37 > 0:31:43All right. You get your 5 grand back and Stefanos takes over.

0:31:43 > 0:31:47Wrong! Nobody quits ME! You started this and you'll end it.

0:31:47 > 0:31:53Besides, Joe couldn't find a prayer in the Bible!

0:31:53 > 0:31:57You'll find her. Take it easy. Take your time.

0:31:57 > 0:32:00Well, I better get back to the airport.

0:32:00 > 0:32:03See you someday!

0:32:09 > 0:32:15It wasn't all a lie, she did take a steamer, but it went north. I was on it, too.

0:32:15 > 0:32:23I took an office in San Francisco. A cheap little rathole that suited the work I did.

0:32:23 > 0:32:26Shabby jobs for whoever hired me.

0:32:26 > 0:32:32It was the bottom of the barrel, but I didn't care. I had her.

0:32:34 > 0:32:38We kept pretty much to ourselves, except for the movie house.

0:32:38 > 0:32:45After a while, when we were more sure of ourselves, we went back to the familiar places.

0:32:45 > 0:32:53Ball parks, race tracks. Why not? After all, there wasn't a chance in a million we'd bump into our past.

0:32:55 > 0:32:58One chance in a million...

0:32:58 > 0:33:03That was all that chump ever had, and he made good!

0:33:03 > 0:33:08I knew if he ever saw her he'd sell us both for 1.95!

0:33:09 > 0:33:12So, we had to separate.

0:33:12 > 0:33:16I went alone to LA, making it easy for him to follow.

0:33:16 > 0:33:20He was a good gum-shoe, though.

0:33:20 > 0:33:26All this time I didn't write to her or phone or telegraph.

0:33:26 > 0:33:31I just waited. And when it seemed right, I arranged to meet her.

0:33:31 > 0:33:35I wasn't bad at the game myself, and was sure I'd shaken him.

0:33:41 > 0:33:46Fisher was back there somewhere and I could see her again.

0:33:46 > 0:33:51We took a cabin at Pyramid Creek. It was dark when I was getting there...

0:33:51 > 0:33:56and then I saw her walking up the road in the headlights.

0:34:00 > 0:34:05- You wanna a lift, babe? - Well, I really hadn't ought.

0:34:06 > 0:34:12- You're a cute little package to be out alone at night. - You're cute yourself ANY night.

0:34:17 > 0:34:24It was meeting her somewhere like the first times. There was something about her that got me.

0:34:24 > 0:34:30I could hold her and laugh, because we were together again.

0:34:30 > 0:34:34We'd played it smart and forgotten nothing.

0:34:34 > 0:34:38- Except one thing... - CAR DOOR

0:34:43 > 0:34:46He had followed her.

0:34:46 > 0:34:49Hello, Jeff.

0:34:57 > 0:35:00Don't I get introduced(?)

0:35:02 > 0:35:08I don't blame you, Jeff. Maybe I'd have lied my head off, too.

0:35:08 > 0:35:11Your pictures don't do you justice, baby.

0:35:11 > 0:35:13Why don't you break his head, Jeff!

0:35:13 > 0:35:18Cute(!) From what I understand, Whit and her deserved each other.

0:35:18 > 0:35:24- You working for him? - Who else would find you? - OK, what's the pitch?

0:35:24 > 0:35:31You and I had a little deal, Jeff. Ten grand and expenses. Fifty-fifty. Remember?

0:35:31 > 0:35:36- You did have a good memory. - I didn't collect.- Not the 10 grand.

0:35:36 > 0:35:41- But, if you tell Whit where we are he might tip you a sawbuck.- Jeff...

0:35:41 > 0:35:48- He won't tell Whit anything. - Sure not! Give me the 40 grand and we're pals.

0:35:48 > 0:35:51- I might cut you in... - There's no 40 grand!

0:35:51 > 0:35:58Of course, Whit's broadminded. He don't care about a few slugs in the stomach.

0:35:58 > 0:36:01Or Jeff falling down on the job.

0:36:01 > 0:36:06- But you two ganging up together, he might not like that! - Tell him, Kathie.

0:36:06 > 0:36:13Sure I shot him. I'm not sorry about that. But I DIDN'T take his money.

0:36:13 > 0:36:21- Beat it!- Look at all the angles... You know how far Whit can reach. Just pay me off and I'm quiet.

0:36:21 > 0:36:27But use cash. I don't want any pitch from this cheap piece of baggage!

0:36:27 > 0:36:29I was hoping you'd do this...

0:36:46 > 0:36:50GUNSHOT RINGS OUT

0:37:06 > 0:37:11- You didn't have to KILL him! - I did. You wouldn't have done.

0:37:11 > 0:37:14- You'd have just hit him.- Why...?

0:37:14 > 0:37:20YOU wouldn't have killed him! He'd have gone to Whit.

0:37:28 > 0:37:32CAR ENGINE STARTS

0:37:55 > 0:38:00I buried him there. I wasn't sorry for him or sore at her.

0:38:00 > 0:38:03I wasn't anything.

0:38:03 > 0:38:06- Did you ever see her again?- No.

0:38:06 > 0:38:09Did you want to?

0:38:09 > 0:38:11..No.

0:38:20 > 0:38:25- I said it wasn't a nice story. - Whatever happened is done!

0:38:25 > 0:38:30- But you should have known long ago. - It's all right. I understand.

0:38:30 > 0:38:34- And it's all past.- Maybe it isn't.

0:38:34 > 0:38:39- What'll happen?- I don't know. I don't know how much he knows.

0:38:39 > 0:38:44- Don't go, Jeff!- I'm tired running. I've got to clean this up some way.

0:38:44 > 0:38:49- Just one thing, Ann. D'you want me to come back?- Of course!

0:38:54 > 0:38:57Put that in your pocket.

0:39:29 > 0:39:32Look who's here!

0:39:34 > 0:39:38- Hello, Markham. Glad to see you. - I wondered if you missed me(!)

0:39:38 > 0:39:43- Same guy...time-proof! Cigarette?- I'm smoking.

0:39:48 > 0:39:53- Thanks. Had breakfast?- No. - Joe, tell the boy we have a guest.

0:39:53 > 0:39:57- I understand you run a gas station? - Is it hard to understand?

0:39:57 > 0:40:01- Well, yes.- It's simple. I sell gas and make a profit.

0:40:01 > 0:40:07It's called earning your living. You may have heard of it somewhere.

0:40:07 > 0:40:11I may have. But it wasn't from YOU !

0:40:11 > 0:40:17- I didn't mean to hurt any feelings. - Feelings?! I haven't been able to find any.

0:40:17 > 0:40:21- Where did you look? - In my pocket-book!

0:40:21 > 0:40:26- ..Nice, isn't it?- Must have set you back a few shillings.

0:40:26 > 0:40:31- Always worrying about my expenses! - Nice view. Am I here to admire it?

0:40:31 > 0:40:34Not exactly.

0:40:34 > 0:40:37- I need your help.- Like old times.

0:40:37 > 0:40:44- I always liked you.- You liked me because I was smart. I'm not smart any more, I run a gas station!

0:40:44 > 0:40:49- I like the view. - Can you still listen?- I can hear.

0:40:49 > 0:40:56Well, my business is a little more precarious and I earn considerably more than you.

0:40:56 > 0:40:59- So I heard.- So has the Government!

0:40:59 > 0:41:03- Well, you could pay them. - That would be against my nature.

0:41:03 > 0:41:09- Forget I said it.- I met a man who understands these things.

0:41:09 > 0:41:12He saved me some money - 1 million.

0:41:12 > 0:41:18I didn't trust him, so I paid him well. But he's unhappy. He wants more.

0:41:18 > 0:41:22- He saved you some.- I appreciate it. I remember what a man did for me.

0:41:22 > 0:41:25- Or didn't?- Perhaps.

0:41:25 > 0:41:31- Now he wants 200,000. - He could get 10% of the million if he turned you in.

0:41:31 > 0:41:35- Oh, you're up on this. - Anything to trade?

0:41:35 > 0:41:41The tax records. But why buy them when you might get them for me?

0:41:41 > 0:41:44- Then I'd have them. - Yes, but I trust you.

0:41:44 > 0:41:49I don't think you can trust anyone. You'd better get them yourself.

0:41:49 > 0:41:55- Pass.- You don't like it? - No, I've got my business to run.

0:41:55 > 0:42:00Well...it's a nice view. Let's have some breakfast.

0:42:05 > 0:42:08You remember Kathie, don't you?

0:42:11 > 0:42:14..Yeah, I remember Kathie.

0:42:15 > 0:42:17Sit down.

0:42:17 > 0:42:20Kathie's back in the fold now.

0:42:20 > 0:42:23- You're back in the fold, too. - I see.

0:42:23 > 0:42:28Jeff, you owe me. That is until you square yourself.

0:42:28 > 0:42:33- Did you bare your heart, Kathie(?) - I couldn't help it.

0:42:33 > 0:42:36- Well, that settles things.- Does it?

0:42:36 > 0:42:39You're working for ME.

0:42:39 > 0:42:43This man's name is Leonard Eels. But don't go to him directly.

0:42:43 > 0:42:47He has a secretary whose name is Meta Carson.

0:42:47 > 0:42:53She might even find you charming. I understand that women have.

0:42:53 > 0:42:56She'll tell you how it's lined up.

0:42:56 > 0:43:01- You know San Francisco(?) - Yeah, I was there once on a party.

0:43:01 > 0:43:05- You get around.- That's right!

0:43:05 > 0:43:08You'll get a train this afternoon.

0:43:08 > 0:43:12- Right now I'd like to sleep. - Joe will show you your room.

0:43:13 > 0:43:18- And don't start worrying. - ..Why should I?

0:43:35 > 0:43:38FRENCH WINDOWS OPENING

0:43:39 > 0:43:42I HAD to come back. What else could I do?

0:43:42 > 0:43:48You never can help it! You're like a leaf blown from gutter to gutter.

0:43:48 > 0:43:54- You can't help anything you do. Even murder.- You can't say that.

0:43:54 > 0:43:56I can say that. I buried him!

0:43:56 > 0:43:59What did you tell him? About us?

0:44:01 > 0:44:06- But you couldn't help it, could you(?)- He knew it!- How much?

0:44:06 > 0:44:10- What, Jeff?- I mean about Fisher. - No, I didn't tell him.

0:44:10 > 0:44:13Don't lie to me!

0:44:13 > 0:44:17I didn't...I wouldn't. I wouldn't tell anyone that!

0:44:17 > 0:44:21- I swear it, Jeff. Believe me! - Sure, I believe you(!)

0:44:21 > 0:44:28I didn't know what to do. I was afraid of what I'd done. I couldn't live that way.

0:44:28 > 0:44:34Oh, Jeff, I've missed you. Wondered about you. I prayed you'd understand.

0:44:34 > 0:44:37- Can you?- YOU prayed, Kathie?

0:44:37 > 0:44:45- Can't you even feel sorry for me? - I'm not going to try. Just get out! I have to sleep in this room.

0:44:47 > 0:44:52Let's just leave it where it is. Get out!

0:45:36 > 0:45:41- Meta Carson?- Yes. - My name is Bailey.- Come in.

0:45:43 > 0:45:47- I was expecting you. - I wasn't expecting you!

0:45:47 > 0:45:51- Is that a compliment? - Whit told me you were charming.- Oh?

0:45:51 > 0:45:53- Gin and tonic?- That would be nice.

0:45:53 > 0:45:57- Or whisky if you'd like. - That would be nicer.

0:46:00 > 0:46:03Miserable weather we're having, isn't it?

0:46:03 > 0:46:07- Are you acquainted with the city? - We were quite intimate.

0:46:07 > 0:46:10- Indeed?- We lived together.

0:46:10 > 0:46:16- It's a nice apartment.- Yes, these old houses can be quite amusing.

0:46:16 > 0:46:20I used to live in one in New York that was old. It wasn't amusing.

0:46:20 > 0:46:26- I've never been there. - That's one reason why I'm in San Francisco!

0:46:26 > 0:46:32- Whit said you'd tell me the other. - I'm afraid I don't quite understand you.

0:46:32 > 0:46:35Well, maybe we should get to the point.

0:46:35 > 0:46:40- You worried about something? - I don't know. Should I be?

0:46:40 > 0:46:44- Not if you do as you're told. - That's why I'm here.

0:46:44 > 0:46:48People trust me. Whit trusted me twice. Do you?

0:46:48 > 0:46:50Just as far as I have to.

0:46:50 > 0:46:56- Find your way to One-Fourteen Fulton Street.- When?- Tonight.

0:46:56 > 0:46:59It's the apartment of Leonard Eels.

0:46:59 > 0:47:04Call for me at eight. Look around. I CAN depend upon that.

0:47:04 > 0:47:09In a day or so, he'll take some papers home. I'll let you know.

0:47:09 > 0:47:14- Then you get them. He'll be away. - Where will he be?- With me.

0:47:14 > 0:47:18- I'm his secretary. - That sounds simple enough.- It is.

0:47:18 > 0:47:22- Like two and two make four. - That's right.

0:47:24 > 0:47:28Just remember, I'm coming out in one piece.

0:47:28 > 0:47:33Do you always go round leaving fingerprints on a girl's shoulders?

0:47:33 > 0:47:38Not that I mind. You've got nice strong hands.

0:47:53 > 0:47:57- Jeff!- Petey, how are you? - Where've you been?

0:47:57 > 0:48:01- I went down the line. - Lookin' for me?

0:48:01 > 0:48:04Come on, let's take a ride in your hack.

0:48:07 > 0:48:11- You look like you're in trouble. - Why?

0:48:11 > 0:48:13'Cos you don't act like it!

0:48:13 > 0:48:16I think I'm in a frame.

0:48:16 > 0:48:22- Don't sound like you. - I don't know. I'm going in there to look at the picture.

0:48:22 > 0:48:26- I don't have to tell you to wait. - No, you don't have to.

0:48:54 > 0:48:58- My name is Bailey. - Oh, yes. Miss Carson told me.

0:48:58 > 0:49:01< Bring him out here, Leonard.

0:49:06 > 0:49:08Thank you.

0:49:08 > 0:49:14Hello, Jeffrey. I always wanted my favourite cousin to meet my boss.

0:49:14 > 0:49:18- Martini?- Meta says you're the ninth wonder of the world.

0:49:18 > 0:49:26All women are wonders. They reduce all men to the obvious. So do Martinis! >

0:49:26 > 0:49:29It's so nice here, I hate to go.

0:49:29 > 0:49:32Don't then. Why not stay for dinner?

0:49:32 > 0:49:37- Why not?- We can't... We promised the Bigelows. Remember?

0:49:37 > 0:49:41- Call them. - No, I'm sorry, Leonard.

0:49:41 > 0:49:43How long are you in town, Mr Bailey?

0:49:43 > 0:49:48- I don't know.- Here on business? - You might call it that.

0:49:48 > 0:49:52- Where are you from? The South? - No...Tahoe.

0:49:52 > 0:49:55- We MUST go, Jeff.- All right.

0:49:58 > 0:50:02Your...er...cousin is a charming young lady.

0:50:02 > 0:50:06HE isn't! He's a bookmaker in Cleveland.

0:50:07 > 0:50:09..Where did you say you were from?

0:50:09 > 0:50:14Tahoe. Where we worry as much about the Income Tax as anybody.

0:50:14 > 0:50:17..Frankly, you don't make sense.

0:50:17 > 0:50:24Nor does my being her cousin. Or being brought here to leave fingerprints around.

0:50:24 > 0:50:29Or maybe it's that I'm the patsy and you're on the spot.

0:50:29 > 0:50:31- Coming, Jeff? > - Right away!

0:50:31 > 0:50:34I'll be back.

0:50:39 > 0:50:42I'm glad you could come, both of you.

0:50:42 > 0:50:45- You make a great Martini. - Thank you.

0:50:45 > 0:50:48Goodnight, Leonard. Goodnight.

0:50:53 > 0:50:57For a man who appears to be clever, you can act the idiot!

0:50:57 > 0:51:00That's one way to be clever!

0:51:01 > 0:51:06- What did you say to him? - I told him he made a great Martini.

0:51:06 > 0:51:08- You are an idiot!- So is he!

0:51:08 > 0:51:11- You think so?- He's in love with you.

0:51:16 > 0:51:18Mason Building.

0:51:23 > 0:51:31- Doesn't your conscience bother you crossing a nice guy?- Maybe he isn't nice. He crosses people, too.

0:51:36 > 0:51:41- Do I go along?- No, go to your hotel and wait.- Yes, Ma'am(!)

0:51:45 > 0:51:49- Nice!- Awfully cool around the heart. Let's go.

0:51:49 > 0:51:53..Hold it! Drive round the block and stop here.

0:52:38 > 0:52:43Follow her, Petey. Then wait for me at Eels' apartment house.

0:55:21 > 0:55:23- I lost her.- She's worth losing!

0:55:23 > 0:55:28I jumped a signal and got stopped by a gabby cop.

0:55:28 > 0:55:30Here...you finish it.

0:55:30 > 0:55:35- Shall I pick up her hack?- No. - Where to?- Telegraph Hill.

0:55:35 > 0:55:39- D'you have some bad luck? - Yeah, my timing was a bit late.

0:55:39 > 0:55:43STRAINS OF PARTY INSIDE

0:55:47 > 0:55:51SOMEONE IS PLAYING PIANO

0:56:34 > 0:56:37PHONE RINGS

0:56:53 > 0:56:55DOOR BEING UNLOCKED

0:57:05 > 0:57:11- DIALS NUMBER - Mr Tillotson?- 'Yes.' - This is Mr Eels' secretary.

0:57:11 > 0:57:17Mr Eels isn't answering his phone. Would you see if he's all right?

0:57:17 > 0:57:20- 'Maybe he's out.' - He was waiting for me.

0:57:20 > 0:57:24I don't want to be a nuisance, but I'm worried.

0:57:24 > 0:57:28- Would you call me back?- 'Yes.' - Filmore 0710.

0:57:28 > 0:57:32- Yes, Miss Carson. Right away. - Thank you.

0:57:55 > 0:57:59PHONE RINGS

0:58:03 > 0:58:07- Yes?- 'He isn't there.'- He isn't?!

0:58:07 > 0:58:10- Did you go in?- 'Yeah.' - He must be there!

0:58:10 > 0:58:13Thank you.

0:58:16 > 0:58:19DIALS AGAIN

0:58:24 > 0:58:28- 'Hello.'- Joe Stefanos, please. - 'He's out!'

0:58:28 > 0:58:32Ask him to phone Miss Carson right away.

0:58:35 > 0:58:38Is there a slip-up, baby?

0:58:41 > 0:58:47- Did you send your friend up there to find Eels dead?- No!- Tell me!

0:58:48 > 0:58:50- TELL me...- Don't, Jeff!- Don't what?

0:58:50 > 0:58:54- I don't want to die! - Neither do I, baby.

0:58:54 > 0:58:58They told you they were going to knock him off and they haven't!

0:58:58 > 0:59:02They haven't, because I tipped him off.

0:59:02 > 0:59:07- He's OK?- Do you want him to be? - Yes - they'll say you did it.

0:59:07 > 0:59:12Oh, you're wonderful, Kathie(!) You can change sides so smoothly!

0:59:12 > 0:59:15Stop, Jeff...you're hurting me!

0:59:15 > 0:59:18I'm almost getting it. It's very pretty.

0:59:18 > 0:59:25Whit wants Eels out of the way. And he wants to square with me. Two birds together.

0:59:25 > 0:59:29I visit the chump. Have a drink. Leave my prints there.

0:59:29 > 0:59:32I leave and somebody gets him.

0:59:32 > 0:59:36And the tax papers...they were in the briefcase Meta took.

0:59:36 > 0:59:39I'm the fall-guy.

0:59:39 > 0:59:43There's only one thing missing. The plant.

0:59:43 > 0:59:47What was the motive? I wouldn't kill for a Martini(!)

0:59:47 > 0:59:51- They made me sign it!- What? - An affidavit.

0:59:51 > 0:59:55I couldn't help it, Jeff. I swear I couldn't!

0:59:55 > 0:59:59- They said they'd tell the police I killed him!- Fisher?

0:59:59 > 1:00:04- Then you did tell them about him. Only you said- I- killed him!

1:00:04 > 1:00:10Foolproof. Whit can really hate, can't he? You said it once.

1:00:10 > 1:00:15I NEVER stopped hating him, Jeff. I was caught, too!

1:00:15 > 1:00:21- We don't have to be against each other!- No? - All we need is the briefcase.

1:00:21 > 1:00:26- We can get anything from them. - I'd like that affidavit you signed!

1:00:26 > 1:00:30It's in Eels' office safe. We can make Meta get it.

1:00:30 > 1:00:33- We can make them do anything! - Sure!

1:00:33 > 1:00:37- Oh, Jeff. You could have killed me for what I did.- There's time.

1:00:37 > 1:00:43No, you won't. I've never stopped loving you.

1:00:43 > 1:00:46I was afraid, but I never stopped.

1:00:46 > 1:00:50- Even if you hated me. Did you? - Yes.

1:00:50 > 1:00:52But you don't now?

1:00:53 > 1:00:55..No.

1:00:55 > 1:01:00We could be together again, in a way we never were.

1:01:00 > 1:01:04We can go back to Acapulco and start all over again.

1:01:11 > 1:01:14How do we get the briefcase?

1:01:14 > 1:01:18Whit owns a club. The Sterling Club on North Beach.

1:01:18 > 1:01:20Meta took it to a man called Baylord.

1:01:20 > 1:01:24- I might get by with it.- You will.

1:01:24 > 1:01:28BUZZER

1:01:28 > 1:01:31INSISTENT BUZZING

1:01:40 > 1:01:43KNOCKING

1:01:46 > 1:01:49What happened to you?

1:01:49 > 1:01:53- I went to a bar and had a double. I must be slipping.- Yes.

1:01:53 > 1:01:58He just stood there shaking so hard he couldn't even pray.

1:01:58 > 1:02:03- I never saw anyone so afraid to die. I didn't like it.- You killed him?!

1:02:04 > 1:02:06Certainly.

1:02:06 > 1:02:10But I called. He wasn't there!

1:02:10 > 1:02:14- Eels?- Yes, Eels! He wasn't there.

1:02:14 > 1:02:17The way I left him, he didn't walk away.

1:02:18 > 1:02:21- What's goin' on?- I don't know.

1:02:22 > 1:02:24I do. Where's Bailey?

1:02:41 > 1:02:45BAND PLAYS DANCE MUSIC

1:03:05 > 1:03:08What d'you want?

1:03:08 > 1:03:10PHONE RINGS

1:03:13 > 1:03:17- Yeah?- 'Mr Baylord, a man's on his way up.'- Forget it!

1:03:39 > 1:03:43LOUD MUSIC FROM DOWNSTAIRS

1:03:49 > 1:03:53- Want to see somebody? - I just saw him. Thanks.

1:04:19 > 1:04:22Know that hack driver? Yeah.

1:04:22 > 1:04:25Rafferty...Get Joe.

1:04:25 > 1:04:29Bring him back any way, just so that briefcase comes too!

1:04:31 > 1:04:36- All arranged.- Twenty for you. The rest is for transportation.

1:04:36 > 1:04:39Have the boy meet me at the airport.

1:04:39 > 1:04:43Sometimes a bad memory can blow somebody's luck.

1:04:43 > 1:04:46I always say everybody's right.

1:04:54 > 1:04:56After you!

1:04:57 > 1:05:00I'll take this. Sorry, Jeff!

1:05:00 > 1:05:06- Start moving!- I sure get into a lot of trouble.- You shouldn't steal.

1:05:16 > 1:05:20Ah, we meet in all kinds of places.

1:05:24 > 1:05:30- Fold your hands or I'll fold 'em for you! - You talk big, Mister!

1:05:32 > 1:05:36UNZIPS BRIEFCASE

1:05:40 > 1:05:44- All right, wise-guy... - I wouldn't. Don't push me around.

1:05:44 > 1:05:49- It won't do any good, will it, Joe? - Cut it, Lou!

1:05:49 > 1:05:55Your move is to do some thinking. I've got the files that were in your briefcase.

1:05:55 > 1:06:03They can be posted to the Treasury. Now, the theory is to save Whit from 10 years in the Federal Pen.

1:06:03 > 1:06:07- Correct me if I make a mistake. - We may do that!

1:06:07 > 1:06:14Of course, the Government may just say to Whit, "Go on home we've got all the dough we need."

1:06:14 > 1:06:18- Want a bet on that?- How did you know I had the briefcase?

1:06:19 > 1:06:23I...had Meta tailed.

1:06:23 > 1:06:29- Sure about that?- Look, all I have to be sure about are the files!

1:06:29 > 1:06:35- Now, do you want to do business or play house? - What's your idea?

1:06:35 > 1:06:40You get the files and Eels' body, in case you want to keep it from the cops.

1:06:40 > 1:06:46- What do you want? - I want the affidavit that Meta put in Eels' safe.

1:06:46 > 1:06:51A lie that somebody put on paper that I killed a guy called Fisher,

1:06:51 > 1:06:55because you don't get the gas for being the undertaker!

1:06:55 > 1:07:01Only four of us knew about that affidavit. Somebody talked.

1:07:06 > 1:07:09- Did Meta tell you?- No.

1:07:09 > 1:07:11Sorry.

1:07:13 > 1:07:17- Whit Sterling... - No...!

1:07:17 > 1:07:23He's right, Kathie. Oh, you've hurt her feelings, Lou. She's sensitive.

1:07:23 > 1:07:29- I'm sensitive myself! - Then you'll need Meta to unlock that safe.

1:07:29 > 1:07:31- I hope she's around. - Yeah.

1:07:31 > 1:07:34Good. Then you can start right now.

1:07:34 > 1:07:38I'll ring you in an hour. That gives you time to get there.

1:07:38 > 1:07:43And a little extra time to figure how to cross me. But you won't!

1:07:48 > 1:07:52POLICE SIRENS WAIL

1:08:32 > 1:08:36Will you bust this for me, Jackson? Sure.

1:08:38 > 1:08:43That's right. The Blue Sky Club in Reno...Shut that door!

1:08:43 > 1:08:46Don't forget. Those dames listen.

1:08:46 > 1:08:49PHONE RINGS

1:08:51 > 1:08:56- Hello.- 'Mr Sterling?'- Yes. - 'One moment, please.'- Thank you.

1:08:56 > 1:09:01- Whit, this is Kathie. - Everything all right?- No-o.

1:09:01 > 1:09:03I think you'd better stay where you are.

1:09:03 > 1:09:08- Can you tell me why? - I can't talk. Things are mixed up.

1:09:08 > 1:09:13- Bailey mix them? - Look, we're trying to get a plane.

1:09:13 > 1:09:19- You're bringing something? - No. I can't explain. I just wanted to tell you.

1:09:19 > 1:09:23- I didn't want anything to happen to you.- Like what, honey?

1:09:23 > 1:09:27Don't go to Tahoe. Wait in Reno for me. Goodbye.

1:09:35 > 1:09:39- Looks like I'm in trouble. - You are if we don't find Bailey!

1:09:39 > 1:09:41I might be if I do!

1:10:08 > 1:10:12"Bridgeport man sought in San Francisco slaying...

1:10:12 > 1:10:15< "Five-year-old murder motive.

1:10:15 > 1:10:21"Leonard Eels, prominent attorney, was found murdered in his apartment this morning.

1:10:22 > 1:10:28"Jeff Bailey, one time detective, now operator of a small gas station in Bridgeport,

1:10:28 > 1:10:31"is hunted for two murders."

1:10:31 > 1:10:36I said all along, that man was no good.

1:10:36 > 1:10:40Look at that... hunted for two murders!

1:10:40 > 1:10:43< I told you! Ann...

1:10:43 > 1:10:45Oh, leave me alone!

1:10:53 > 1:10:59RADIO: Road is now blocked 20 miles south of Bridgeport.

1:10:59 > 1:11:05- Hello, Jim.- Hello. Talked to the kid? - He's gone. The station's locked up.

1:11:05 > 1:11:08- Gone where?- Maybe with Bailey.

1:11:08 > 1:11:13If you had the law on your tail, would you let a kid come along?

1:11:13 > 1:11:17I'd want a partner - if I could get him.

1:11:17 > 1:11:22Ed! Yeah?

1:11:22 > 1:11:27Bailey took a plane to LA last night. Maybe headed this way.

1:11:27 > 1:11:33OK...Would you consider it too dumb for him to hole up here?

1:11:33 > 1:11:36He'll come. And when he does, I'll know!

1:11:36 > 1:11:38See ya.

1:11:41 > 1:11:47What does he mean? What do you suppose? Ann Miller.

1:11:47 > 1:11:49Me, I'll take the kid.

1:12:00 > 1:12:02You all right, Ann?

1:12:02 > 1:12:06I know what you're going to say. Don't, Jim!

1:12:06 > 1:12:10Jeff didn't do it. He told me everything.

1:12:10 > 1:12:17- Has he got you mixed up in this? - Whatever he's mixed up in, I am too.

1:12:17 > 1:12:19I won't see him hurt you!

1:12:19 > 1:12:23- If he comes back here... - You won't go to the police?

1:12:23 > 1:12:29- I don't know what I'll do.- No, Jim. - You expect me to help him (?)

1:12:29 > 1:12:31Jim...

1:12:37 > 1:12:41(He can read your lips.)

1:12:42 > 1:12:44Mr Sterling is fishing.

1:12:45 > 1:12:50No, in the high mountains. Tell Jeff we're sending for him.

1:12:50 > 1:12:52Where can we reach you?

1:13:00 > 1:13:03Joe will find you when we have word.

1:13:13 > 1:13:19- I'm not sure this is a bright idea. - Can you think of a brighter one?

1:13:53 > 1:13:56ROAR OF WATERFALL

1:14:42 > 1:14:44GUNSHOT

1:15:03 > 1:15:06Followed you from Tahoe?

1:15:06 > 1:15:09Who'd you see, Sterling? Kathie?

1:15:14 > 1:15:16Cute kids, aren't they?

1:15:45 > 1:15:49What are you scared about? Joe isn't coming back.

1:15:49 > 1:15:54He got careless and fell in a river. Didn't you hear?

1:15:54 > 1:15:59Joe's dead, Kathie! Can't you find some tears for him?

1:15:59 > 1:16:02- Come on!- What are you going to do?

1:16:02 > 1:16:07- Talk things over with Whit. Don't you think I should?- Yes...

1:16:07 > 1:16:11- He wants to see you. He's waiting. - With his fishing rod (?)

1:16:11 > 1:16:16- He...came back.- I bet he's just pacing the floor worrying about Joe.

1:16:16 > 1:16:21- You think- I- sent Joe? - Oh, you're wonderful!

1:16:21 > 1:16:25- All right, where is the gentleman? - Downstairs, in the library.

1:16:25 > 1:16:28Jeff...don't let him trick you.

1:16:28 > 1:16:33- He'll do anything you ask. - Sure he will, anything (!)

1:16:37 > 1:16:42- If only there was some way about Fisher.- There is!

1:16:50 > 1:16:53APPROACHING FOOTSTEPS

1:16:53 > 1:16:59- Getting things in shape for the Treasury boys? - Jeff, I was expecting you.

1:16:59 > 1:17:02Well, let's get down to business. Right?

1:17:02 > 1:17:05You have some papers of mine.

1:17:05 > 1:17:10Take the frame off me. Pin the Eels murder on Joe.

1:17:11 > 1:17:14Sure...sure.

1:17:14 > 1:17:18I get a modest settlement. Say, oh...say fifty thousand?

1:17:18 > 1:17:22To spend my waning years in Mazatlan.

1:17:22 > 1:17:28Not Acapulco, because I'd think of you. Up in the women's prison in Tehachipi.

1:17:28 > 1:17:31It won't be TOO bad. Plenty of sun.

1:17:32 > 1:17:34..You make me nervous.

1:17:34 > 1:17:39You'll be happier if you let the cops have her, Whit.

1:17:39 > 1:17:43I'M not going to take the rap for Fisher!

1:17:43 > 1:17:48- Wait a minute. I'm not framing any woman.- When did you reform?

1:17:48 > 1:17:51I wouldn't. You're out of shape.

1:17:51 > 1:17:55- Besides, she shot him! - He was going to kill you!

1:17:55 > 1:17:59Self-defence. She might not even do time.

1:17:59 > 1:18:02- I'll say it was you. They'll believe me!- Do you, Whit?

1:18:04 > 1:18:09- Go on, tell him about Joe. - What about Joe?

1:18:09 > 1:18:11He's in the East Walker River.

1:18:11 > 1:18:18- I DIDN'T send him after Jeff. It was his own idea! - ..Did you kill him?

1:18:18 > 1:18:24He slipped and fell. When I got there it was too late.

1:18:24 > 1:18:28- He was trailing you? - You don't go fishing with a .45!

1:18:28 > 1:18:34Stop worrying. Fish him out. Stick a note in his pocket. Suicide.

1:18:34 > 1:18:40Don't look so stricken, Whit. You'll get over it. I did.

1:18:40 > 1:18:44Talk it out if you want, I'll wait in there.

1:18:44 > 1:18:49Oh, Kathie, did it take much to make you say I killed Fisher?

1:18:49 > 1:18:56Come on, feed my ego. Tell me he beat you. Dragged every word out of you.

1:18:56 > 1:19:02- ..Well, that's the way it is. - You said you were going. Get out!

1:19:18 > 1:19:21You dirty little phony!

1:19:21 > 1:19:28Tell me about San Francisco. Tell me it was Joe's idea. Go on, squirm your way out of this.

1:19:28 > 1:19:31- Listen...- You took me for a sucker!

1:19:31 > 1:19:38I took you back when you came whimpering. I should have kicked your teeth in!

1:19:38 > 1:19:42No, I'm not going to. Not now, Kathie.

1:19:42 > 1:19:46- We'll let the law push you around. - You can't!- You're wrong.

1:19:46 > 1:19:51- You're going to take the rap. You're going to do as- I- tell you.

1:19:51 > 1:19:57If you don't, I'll kill you. And I promise, it won't be quick!

1:19:57 > 1:20:02You won't be able to answer a door without thinking this is it.

1:20:02 > 1:20:08And when it comes, it still won't be quick. AND it won't be pretty!

1:20:09 > 1:20:12You can take your choice.

1:20:12 > 1:20:14Whit...!

1:20:32 > 1:20:38- I have to go to Reno for the money. Where's the file?- I'll mail it.

1:20:39 > 1:20:41Look, I wouldn't cross you twice.

1:20:41 > 1:20:48I want to be let alone. You'll get the file after I'm out of reach.

1:20:49 > 1:20:52..If that's the way it has to be.

1:20:52 > 1:20:55And find yourself a pilot who can keep his mouth shut.

1:20:55 > 1:21:00Tell him to set his plane down in the desert at about dawn.

1:21:00 > 1:21:06And cheer up, Kathie! You'll get out of it. You always have.

1:21:42 > 1:21:45RUSTLE OF LEAVES

1:21:51 > 1:21:55- They say you killed a man. - Do you believe them?

1:21:55 > 1:21:59- Not until you tell me. - You believe everything I say?

1:21:59 > 1:22:04- Everything you say to me I believe. - I don't know why I do this...

1:22:04 > 1:22:08Why do I let you into my stinking life?

1:22:08 > 1:22:11I ought to slap you and send you home.

1:22:11 > 1:22:14- You said you'd come back. - Not like this.

1:22:14 > 1:22:17- You didn't kill him, did you?- No.

1:22:17 > 1:22:20You know I had to come back.

1:22:24 > 1:22:28- Take me with you, Jeff. - I have to play this alone.

1:22:28 > 1:22:32- You've seen her again? - Yeah, I saw her.

1:22:32 > 1:22:36- Was it the same? - I saw her and it was nothing.

1:22:36 > 1:22:42- She can't be all bad. No-one is. - Well, she comes the closest!

1:22:42 > 1:22:45- Will you see her again?- Tonight.

1:22:45 > 1:22:48Then look at her and look at yourself.

1:22:48 > 1:22:53And be VERY sure that there isn't a little love left for her.

1:22:53 > 1:22:59Then, when you find out, and you know it once and for all, send for me.

1:22:59 > 1:23:03I don't have to find out. I know!

1:23:05 > 1:23:08That's all I wanted to hear.

1:23:08 > 1:23:12Maybe luck is like love. Go all the way and you find it.

1:23:12 > 1:23:15- You do to keep it. - ..You better go.

1:23:15 > 1:23:21- Did the kid do what I told him? - They're following him south, all of them.

1:23:22 > 1:23:25..I can't go.

1:23:44 > 1:23:47- You can put that away.- Oh, can I?

1:23:47 > 1:23:50- I just want to tell you something. - Tell it.

1:23:50 > 1:23:53I WAS going to kill you.

1:23:53 > 1:23:56- Who isn't (?)- Or tell the cops.

1:23:57 > 1:24:00I followed Ann tonight.

1:24:00 > 1:24:03- What stopped you? - Some things you said to her.

1:24:03 > 1:24:06What were you going to tell me?

1:24:06 > 1:24:13I grew up with her. I don't know if I'm good enough for her, but I know YOU aren't!

1:24:13 > 1:24:17The difference is that she loves ME.

1:24:17 > 1:24:24I don't know who you were, or what got you where you are, or where it's taking you...

1:24:24 > 1:24:27but she's NOT going with it!

1:24:27 > 1:24:33Say it to the law. Then, you can tell her how you did it!

1:25:17 > 1:25:21You can't make deals with a dead man, Jeff.

1:25:21 > 1:25:24No, you can't.

1:25:29 > 1:25:33- Let's get out.- Is there some place left to go?- I think so.

1:25:33 > 1:25:36YOU'RE running the show now.

1:25:39 > 1:25:41Do you mind, Jeff?

1:25:43 > 1:25:48Remember the mountains? We should have stayed there.

1:25:48 > 1:25:51I'm trying to remember something else.

1:25:51 > 1:25:57I never told you I was anything but what I am. You imagined it.

1:25:57 > 1:26:02- That's why I left. Now, we're back to stay!- Do I have a say about it?

1:26:02 > 1:26:07Well, have you? Whit's dead. That bundle of papers is no good.

1:26:07 > 1:26:13If Joe was here you could use him. But Joe's dead. And Eels and Fisher.

1:26:13 > 1:26:18And what about this? Someone has to take the blame.

1:26:18 > 1:26:21They've nothing on me. But I'd make a fine witness!

1:26:21 > 1:26:26Don't you see, you've ONLY me to make deals with.

1:26:26 > 1:26:30- Build my gallows high, baby. - No...

1:26:30 > 1:26:34No, we're starting all over. I want to go back to Mexico.

1:26:34 > 1:26:41I want to sit in the moonlight and tell you all the things I never told you...

1:26:41 > 1:26:45until you don't hate me... until you love again.

1:26:45 > 1:26:51- They'll look for us until we die! - I don't care, as long as we're together.

1:26:51 > 1:26:56If you're thinking of anyone else, don't. It wouldn't work.

1:26:56 > 1:27:01You're no good for anyone. You're no good and neither am I.

1:27:01 > 1:27:03That's why we deserve each other.

1:27:08 > 1:27:11Did he get the plane?

1:27:11 > 1:27:16- Where is it?- I'm running the show, don't forget.- Where's the money?

1:27:16 > 1:27:21- Upstairs.- Better pack a couple of bags and get it.

1:27:22 > 1:27:26- Put a few things in for me. - I have.

1:28:14 > 1:28:16- Thanks.- Por nada!

1:28:16 > 1:28:20Do you remember La Mar Azul?

1:28:20 > 1:28:26- I remember you were a clumsy flirt. - We owe it all to Jose Rodriguez!

1:28:26 > 1:28:30..I wonder if he'll ever know what a bad guide he really was?

1:28:30 > 1:28:37Jeff, we've been wrong a lot and unlucky a long time. I think we deserve a break.

1:28:39 > 1:28:43- We deserve each other! - GLASS SMASHES

1:29:11 > 1:29:14Hurry, Jeff!

1:29:25 > 1:29:28ENGINE SPLUTTERS

1:29:31 > 1:29:34ENGINE CATCHES

1:29:57 > 1:30:00You...double-crossing rat!

1:30:00 > 1:30:03GUN GOES OFF

1:30:42 > 1:30:47- CROWD MURMURING - Sorry...

1:30:50 > 1:30:56Too many people. Too much talk. Maybe that's why I like this town.

1:30:56 > 1:30:59Here, three people are really a crowd.

1:31:00 > 1:31:03Let's get in the car and get away.

1:31:03 > 1:31:09- I won't talk to you, Ann. I just want to be with you. - Thanks, Jim, but I can't!

1:31:19 > 1:31:23YOU can tell me. You knew him better than I did.

1:31:23 > 1:31:26Was he going away with her?

1:31:26 > 1:31:29I HAVE to know!

1:31:29 > 1:31:32Was he going away with HER?